A MAN claims to have helped deliver his baby son by following clips on YouTube, after his wife went into labour early.
Marc Stephens, a 28-year old Royal Navy engineer, says he was caught out when his wife Jo went into labour three weeks prematurely at their home in Redruth, southwest England.
He says he typed "how to deliver a baby" into Google.
"I didn't even have time to panic. She started complaining of pain around 10.30pm. I went on Google and watched a couple of clips on YouTube," he said, adding that his wife had given birth quickly with their three older children.
"At 2.30am she woke me up, but when I rang the midwife to come out she said they were busy at the hospital. The next thing I know she is coming through the bedroom doorway on all fours.
"I looked down and the baby's head was showing."
After helping her give birth, he says he rounded up daughters Jasmine, two, Sophie, five and Zoe, six, and the whole family went by ambulance to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in nearby Truro.
Within hours they were back at home, where Stephens was caring for his wife and children, including newborn son Gabriel.